The College of Optometrists has top tips to keep your eyes healthy in front of a screen :
* Make sure that if you need spectacles to look at a screen, you wear them!
* Blink regularly. When focusing on a screen your reflexes will slow down, tear production will reduce, and you will blink less, causing dry and uncomfortable eyes.
* Remember the 20-20-20 rule: every 20 minutes, look 20 feet away for 20 seconds to give your eye muscles a break and help increase the rate of blinking.
* Keep the distance of the monitor from your eyes between 16 to 30 inches. Most people find a distance of 20 to 26 inches comfortable.
* Make sure that the top of the monitor is at a level at or slightly below your horizontal eye level.
* Tilt the top of the monitor away from you at a 10- to 20-degree angle. This will enable you to create an optimum viewing angle.
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